Image Color Palette Extractor
Upload an image to extract its most common colors as a palette of hex codes, useful for matching a design to a photo or logo.
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Frequently asked questions
How are the dominant colors actually determined?+
By grouping similar pixel colors into buckets and counting how often each bucket appears, then averaging the actual pixels within the most common buckets. It's a simple frequency-based method, not a more elaborate clustering algorithm, but it works well for a quick palette preview.
Why might the extracted colors look slightly different from what I see in the image?+
Bucketing groups nearby shades together and returns their average, so a color with a lot of subtle variation (like a gradient sky) gets represented by one averaged value rather than every individual shade.
Does this work on photos with lots of colors, not just simple graphics?+
Yes, though on a very colorful photo the extracted palette will naturally reflect whichever colors are most visually dominant, not necessarily every color present.